David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage | Lex Fridman Podcast #104
RISC architecture revolutionized computing by using simpler instruction sets that enabled faster processors and are now used in 99% of new chips
David Patterson
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David Patterson is a Turing Award-winning computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley who pioneered RISC processor architecture, which is used in 99% of new chips today. He co-created RAID storage technology and is recognized as one of the great educators in computer science, co-authoring the influential textbook 'Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach' with John Hennessy.